SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced it signed a multiyear contract with JP Realty Inc. in Salt Lake City to manage the radio-frequency communications equipment facilities located on JP Realty’s property. Increasingly, wireless communications service providers are placing their equipment on the …
CINCINNATI-Cinergy Communications Inc., Lattice Partners Ltd. and a partnership led by Robert M. Bass announced they will form a venture to acquire and develop a large portfolio of communications towers in the Midwest. The venture, Lattice Communications L.L.C., will lease …
TAMPA, Fla.-UniSite Inc. plans to acquire 66 telecommunications towers in 12 states in two separate transactions. Financial details of the arrangements were not disclosed. The company is buying 27 towers in Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri from Charles W. McCullough, Jo-Carroll …
PEORIA, Ill.-Rohn Industries Inc., which makes tubular towers and equipment enclosures, announced it is merging with Pirod Holdings Inc., a specialized telecommunications equipment manufacturer. Under terms of the agreement, Pirod will be merged into Rohn. Up to 52.5 percent of …
HOUSTON, BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Mobile and Crown Castle International Corp. announced an agreement to form a joint venture company that will own, operate and actively advance the leasing space on BAM’s existing network of wireless towers throughout the country. Additionally, …
WASHINGTON-Marcia Spielholz, the California woman whose emergency 911 cellular phone call went unanswered in 1994 during an attempted auto theft in which she was shot in the face, plans to amend her class-action lawsuit against Los Angeles Telephone Co. next …
ADC Telecommunications Inc. completed its acquisition of Teledata Communications Ltd. for $15.75 per share, or about $200 million in cash. Omnipoint Communications Inc. launched commercial roaming with NPI Wireless of Traverse City, Mich. NPI operates Global System for Mobile communications …
The MapFactory, a Walnut Creek, Calif., company specializing in adding value to imaging and mapping products, has developed a product that could impact the way wireless carriers build out their networks. The company brings together vast amounts of information such …
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-ANI Site Development announced it signed a new agreement to manage all of Renda Broadcasting Corp.’s broadcast towers. ANI manages more than 200 communications sites in the Southeast. Renda has towers in Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Florida and Georgia.
NABLUS, West Bank-Many who conduct business in this often-troubled region say peace would come much more quickly if they took over the responsibility from politicians. Cooperation in the wireless telecommunications sector appears to support that testimony. When Palestine Telecommunications Co. …
EDISON, N.J.-AAT Communications Corp. will manage the marketing and collocation activities for Union Pacific Railroad Co.’s network of 1,200 towers located along its more 36,000 miles of railroad, under a new agreement signed by the companies, said AAT. Union Pacific …
While the debate around third-generation wireless technology to date has focused on which air interface to incorporate into the standard, leading wireless vendors brought up a few other crucial points at PCS ’98 in Orlando that will have to be …
WASHINGTON-Manufacturers and fixed wireless users are poised to launch a campaign on Capitol Hill and at the Federal Communications Commission to advocate “spectrum-impact studies” as a prerequisite to frequency reallocations and other actions that impact the wireless landscape of today …
WASHINGTON-Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and James Jeffords (R-Vt.) shortly plan to introduce new legislation that would repeal federal pre-emption of local zoning regulation, encourage alternative technologies in lieu of large towers and allow communities to reject antenna-siting applications if wireless …
FORT LEE, N.J.-MobileMedia Corp. announced it has closed the sale of its transmission towers to Pinnacle Towers Inc. for $170 million in cash. MobileMedia diverted the fee for the 163 towers to its secured creditors, who have a lien on …
WASHINGTON-In late spring, as federal regulators, wireless carriers and state and local officials neared the end of nearly one year of negotiations-culminating earlier this month with a highly publicized antenna-siting agreement that included the withdrawal of a controversial industry pre-emption …
WASHINGTON-Finishing guidelines to facilitate antenna sitings on park property, The National Park Service stopped short of presuming that antennas can be sited without harming NPS lands. Instead, NPS decided each application must be reviewed individually, including applications for collocation. “The …
In this Clintonian Age of Relativity, there is always-for everyone here-a way out: denial. Having an extramarital affair with a girl your twenty-something daughter’s age. Deny it. Soliciting campaign contributions from a Buddhist temple or from the White House. Deny …
Tadiran Microwave Networks, which has made several structural changes designed to improve operating efficiencies, won a $4.2 million contract with the Maricopa County, Ariz., government to replace its analog network for public-safety communications. TMN was formed by Tadiran Ltd.’s April …
WASHINGTON-House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.), compromising with Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) on privacy, liability and cancer-research funding, won bipartisan approval last week on legislation to improve E911 wireless capability and foster antenna siting on federal land. The bill, …
Communication Solutions Inc. awarded Conductus Inc. a subcontract, valued at about $1 million, to build a multichannel wireless receiver front-end enhanced by superconductors. The Baltimore-based company plans to integrate the front end into a high-performance system earmarked for a number …
MCLEAN, Va.-LCC International Inc. said its subsidiary, Microcell Management Inc., has agreed to work with an unnamed personal communications services carrier to construct 60 towers. The build-to-suit services will take place in the southeastern United States, said the company. LCC …
FORT LEE, N.J.-MobileMedia Corp. announced it signed a definitive agreement to sell its 163 transmission towers to Pinnacle Towers Inc. The $170 million sale allows MobileMedia to retain ownership of the transmitters, antennas and other equipment on the towers through …
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Land Mobile Products Sector signed a multiyear contract to manage wireless communications equipment facilities located on Waste Management of North America Inc.’s property at sites across the country. The Antenna Site Division of Motorola plans to manage …
U.S. utility companies could become significant players in the wireless telecommunications industry in coming years if they can figure out the right strategy to enter the business. Analysts indicate utilities seriously are evaluating opportunities to branch out into the telecommunications …
